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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Instana SaaS must support Dual(Multiple) SSO in the same tenant as Dynatrace is supporting now.

My customer is using Dynatrace that supports Dual SSO, so they are using SAML via Okta for SSO of regular employees and Azure SaaS AD for SSO of partner employees both are having different email domains.However, I got answered from IBM Support tha...
1 day ago in Instana / Observability of AI 0 Submitted

Farmacias Guadalajara is requesting to extend the observability of additional metrics for Informix DB that will complement the current sensor funcionality..

Farmacias Guadalajara has hundreds of branches distributed across Mexican territory. All the transactions generated on each branch are processed by Informix central databases, so it is critical to monitor the full health of Informix technology. We...
4 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Ability to limit API Access/Generate API Keys

While Cloudability API access keys can be generated by any user, the role assigned to the user with the key dictates what the users can and can't do with API calls. For example, a base CLDY User role can't do anything with business mappings, as th...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Submitted

Consistent Proxy Support Across All Instana Agent Sensors via configuration.yaml and Environment Variables

While some Instana agent sensors, such as the AWS sensor, already support proxy configuration, this functionality is not consistently available across all sensors. In particular, sensors like Prometheus do not currently support proxy settings, eit...
4 days ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Submitted

include systemd scripts

Future FPs of TADDM should include systemd scripts for start/stop of the app. systemd is a system and service manager for Linux operating systems. It is the default initialization system for current versions of all major Linux distributions.

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
19 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

take off the menu bar when I save a dashboard as PDF

the customer wants to save the information that a dashboard shows, but the PDF shows a menu bar over the information. I uploaded the PDF that was generated with the menu bar and the second file is an example without the menu bar.
17 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Instana should support LOKI as a log source

The latest versions of the OpenShift Logging Operator have dropped support for ElasticSearch and have moved over to LOKI. Instana needs to be able to use LOKI as a log integration source in order for us to maintain a vendor supported logging model...
5 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Non-root installation of Instana agent

By installing the agent as a non-root user, the Instana administrator has the ability to stop, start, or reconfigure the agent without having to manage or request access as the root user. This process can sometimes take up to 24 hours to grant acc...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Customizable metric multiplier / threshold for rightsizing recommendation

In some production enviroments, workloads are intentionally overprovisioned to allow for burst capacity, stability or failover requirements.In most cases this is has to do with compliance and regulations bound apps. We propose addig a metric multi...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted